Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-03-03

MEMOhiAL 0ERVICES. - Last We'd
hesday afternoon memorial services. in
honor of the late Alex. Provis, were
held in the court room. Addresses were
made by w. Z. Carter A. r. Bushnell
A. w. Bell, j. T. Mills, VIM. butcher,
A. c. Eastland and his Honor, Judge
Clementson. Each of these gentlemen
having known Mr.. Provis for years in
the law and as personal friend, had
pleasing tribute to offer to his memory
as generous, genial gentleman, and
brilliant successful lawyer. After the
addresses it was ordered by the Court
that the following resolutions be spread
upon the record of the court and copy
OF them presented to the widow of the
Diseased. On presenting the resolu-
ton MIR A. r. Bushnell made the follow
ing remarks: "May it please your
Honor, | am delegated by my brethren
OF the bar, to present to the court this
expression of their respect, and esteem
for our late brother Alexander Provis
deceased, and of coincidence with his
family, and move that the same be spread
of perpetual memory, upon the records
Of the court. This court never dies. In
law-it is immortal. The Judge upon
the bench, the officers of the court, the
bar, the clerk, the sheriff, all alike, await
the inevitable hour when they shall pass
over the river, to that dark country,
from whose shores no traveller returns.
And when death takes from among us,
one so prominent, and so long and hap
| PLY associated with us at the bar, as
was brother Provis, it seems fitting that
we should pause in the regular course
of business here, and drawing over his
faults and frailties, whatever they may
have been, the broad mantle of charity,
which all men need-for no man is
perfect for him that due mead of
praise which his virtues merit. Thus
shall we, sure of no injustice to the dead,
do meet honor to the memory of a de-
parted worthy brother, and inculcate
lessons to the living useful. On behalf of
my brethren of the bar, Imove the court,
that their action upon the death of
brother Provis, be spread of perpetual
record to his memory, and that a copy
thereof under the seal of the court, be
presented to his widow"
To the Gentlemen Of the Bar Of the Circuit Court
| of Grant County:
| The undersigned, your committee appointed to
draft suitable expression of respect and esteem to
| the memory of deceased brother, Alexander
Provis. and of coincidence with his afflicted family.
| respectfully report the following:
Since the last session Of this court in the inscrut
able providence Of Almighty God, our brother Alex
ander Provis has been suddenly removed from among
Us by death. He had just returned from attendance
on the United States Madison. to his home
in Boscobel, when the 10th day Of December last
the midst Of the active duties Of his profession he
was stricken with apoplexy, and the same day he
died.
| Brother Provis was an able and prominent member
1
late in life. yet his native qualifications, education
| and learning in the law, we're such, that he soon
| took and ever maintained position among its
leaders
OF Brother Provs' early life, we know little more
than that he was born the goth day of May, Is3s
in Cornwall, England, where, as we are informed,
losing his parents in early hfe he was educated by
uncle for the ministry Of the Episcopal Church.
He emigrated to the United States in 1862. came to
Potosi in this county. and has since remain ID
| citizen Of Grant county. He studied law to some
extent in Lancaster but mostly with the Hon. George
{. Hazeton in Boscobel, admitted this bar on
September 10th, 1873, and after entered into
partnership with Mr.. Hazleton In 1882 this partner
ship dissolved the business being continued by
Mr. Provis alone. until 1884. when his partnership
with John D. Wilson was formed, which continued
| until his death
At the bar, brother Provis was an honorable and
upright practitioner ever faithful to his Client cour-
teous his brethren. and kind and genial to ALL In
him, the frailties Of human nature, common to all
men, took the direction of injury Others and
with him, believe it may be truly said, that he
died. with malice towards none." and leaving none
with malice towards him.
ReS0LUed That in the death of brother Provis this
bar has lost of its ablest and highly esteemed
members, the country good and useful citizen. and
Grant county of its most prominent inhabitants
ResOIced That we deeply deplore the loss we. and
this community have sustained in his DEATH that we
cherish his memory that Of an able and worthy
brother of this bar. and tender to his widow our
sincere sympathy in the great affection she has been
called to undergo.
ResOIUed, That this report of your cemmttee be
presented to the court. with the request that the
be spread Of perpetual record therein, and that
copy thereof under the seal of the court be presented
to the widow Of our deceased brother.
All of which is respectfully submitted, this s3d day
Of February A. d. 1887.
A. r. BUSHNELL,
JOHN d. WILSON,
w. E. CARTER.